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Now Supply Chain Woes Have Come for the Color Blue
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Now Supply Chain Woes Have Come for the Color Blue

Kelsey Ables
The Washington Post, 2021
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Vivid color is an essential element in art, and vital to industrial and commercial product design. COVID-19 disrupted the global trade network in the pigments and other ingredients that create artists’ and designers’ contemporary color palettes. As Kelsey Ables reports in The Washington Post, worldwide shipping delays have affected traffic in pigments along the supply chain from primary ingredient locations to paint manufacturers.

Take-Aways

  • If you need a tube of ultramarine blue – which has adorned artists’ palettes throughout history – you may be out of luck.
  • COVID-19 disrupted global supplies of pigments and access to the materials needed to process them and manufacture paints.
  • Some colors that artistic creation and commercial production demand are not reliably available.

About the Author

Kelsey Ables, an editorial aide in the Arts section, joined The Washington Post in 2019.

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